Has industrial symbiosis' time finally come?

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With the G7 promising to push industrial symbiosis up the agenda, Jonny Hazell argues the opportunity to boost industrial resource efficiency has arrived

There's an old joke about generating electricity from nuclear fusion: that it's always just 50 years away, no matter when you're starting from. Perhaps unfairly, I have the same feeling about industrial...

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